Subject: English Language Arts (2) Title: It's Not Hard to Make a Card!Description: This lesson on poetry and rhyming integrates technology and student creativity. The students will use what they have learned about poetry to create their own piece of work through a project. This lesson can be facilitated in flip classroom style, in class flip classroom, style, and classical lecture style. In this lesson plan I am choosing to facilitate it using in class flip classroom style through stations. Students will be able to view a presentation that I have created on poetry using the Educreations application, create a card including a poem written by them using Greeting Card Maker, an application available on Android devices, and then send the card to a parent or friend of their choice.

Subject: English Language Arts (2) Title: The Apple Pie TreeDescription: Who doesn't love an apple pie? In this story, students will observe an apple tree throughout the seasons while answering who, what, where, why, when, and how questions. As a conclusion, students will make and eat an apple pie!
This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.Subject: English Language Arts (2 - 3), or Science (2) Title: Splish! Splash!Description: Let's get wet and wild with this exciting unit on the ocean! Through the use of wonderful literature, art projects, research, and much more, the students will expand their understanding of what life is like for the creatures of the ocean.
This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.Subject: English Language Arts (2), or Social Studies (K - 1) Title: Exploring Customs and Cultures- Part 2Description: Students meet both language arts and social studies objectives in this interdisciplinary unit on customs and cultures. In part 1 of the unit students practice research and writing skills to create a slideshow. In part 2 of the unit students explore culture through games and work with a partner to write a page in a class how-to book.

Subject: English Language Arts (2), or Mathematics (2 - 4) Title: Money ManagementDescription: This month-long experience educates students in differentiating between needs and wants, how to budget resources, and to gain an understanding of the workings of a capitalist society.

Subject: English Language Arts (2 - 3), or Technology Education (K - 2) Title: Welcome to our ClassroomDescription: Students will create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school.

Subject: Arts Education (2), or English Language Arts (2), or Technology Education (K - 2) Title: Monster DescriptionsDescription: The class will participate in an Internet project called Monster Exchange. They will partner with another class to exchange directions on drawing a monster. They will then share the monsters drawn from the directions by posting them on the Monster Exchange website.

Subject: Language Arts,MathematicsTitle: Toy Shop NumbersAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on the role of numbers and language in real-world situations. Students look at a picture of a toy-shop and then identify and describe examples of the use of numbers.Thinkfinity Partner: IlluminationsGrade Span: K,PreK,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Write letters that make things happen!Add BookmarkDescription: In a small group or as individuals, students write letters related to a unit of study or particular topic they have studied.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817.Add BookmarkDescription: Students make mental '' snapshots'' of a natural setting, then capture the details of their setting by writing and then creating a class booklet of the nature walk.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Using Web-Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet ResearchAdd BookmarkDescription: The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students to appropriate sites on the topic, and a graphic organizer helps them focus their research.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 2,3

Subject: Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Eyewitness to HistoryAdd BookmarkDescription: Families connect us to our own history and to the history of the world around us. In this lesson from EDSITEment, students explore this second set of connections, talking with family members about landmark events they have witnessed in their lifetimes to learn how history touches our lives.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Teaching Audience Through Interactive WritingAdd BookmarkDescription: Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies,ArtsTitle: If You Were a Pioneer on the Oregon TrailAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students compare imagined travel experiences of their own with the actual experiences of 19th-century pioneers. After creating, as a class, oral stories about contemporary cross-country journeys, students learn about the experiences of the emigrants who traveled on the Oregon Trail. They then create works of historical fiction in the form of picture books, drawing upon the information they have learned.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: My Piece of HistoryAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students examine pictures of household objects from the late 20th century, gather historical information about them from older family members, and then create an in-class exhibit of historical objects from their own homes.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Arts,Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: The Meaning Behind the MaskAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the cultural significance of masks, discuss the use of masks in stories, and then investigate the role masks play in ceremonies and on special occasions in various African cultures. After students have studied these masks, they are then given an opportunity to choose a familiar story and make simple masks to perform the story.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry WritingAdd BookmarkDescription: This unit of three lessons from EDSITEment makes poetry exciting for students as they listen to, write, and recite poems that are sure to please. By the end of the unit, students should be able to create lines of poetry in response to poems read aloud, identify musical elements of literary language, and recite short poems or excerpts.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Stars and Stripes Forever: Flag Facts for Flag DayAdd BookmarkDescription: In this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn what a symbol is while developing their understanding of how one particular symbol, the American Flag, plays an important role in the everyday lives of American citizens. Learning the history of the flag helps instill in students respect for our national symbol and helps them learn appropriate etiquette regarding our flag. Students learn that other symbols of our country, such as the President and certain holidays, like Flag Day, are important to us as well. Students can also contribute symbols from their familial, ethnic and national cultures to show the diversity of American society and its links to other parts of the world.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to LiteratureAdd BookmarkDescription: Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Note Writing in the Primary ClassroomAdd BookmarkDescription: This lesson provides a wealth of ideas for using notes in the classroom to promote authentic writing among children.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot StructureAdd BookmarkDescription: Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found PoetryAdd BookmarkDescription: Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Weekend News! A Weekly Writing ActivityAdd BookmarkDescription: On Monday mornings, you re likely to be asked, What did you do this weekend? In this lesson, students respond to this question in a self-assessed writing assignment about their weekend adventures.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2